Antelope buck heads are difficult to judge, but when you see a really big one, you know it. The ears are six inches long, the eyes are six inches across and the head is 12 inches from base of skull to nose. Any horns over 14 inches is a good head. This is the seventh one I killed. I used Boone and Crockett's score sheet to score them and they range from 66 4/8 points to 76 4/8 points, with a minimum of 80 points for B&C book. This one was second best with 74 2/8 points and I thought he was not very big. But with storms this week and all else I had to do, it was a really good hunt. Bob says it will stay with him for life. I have suffered enough on past hunts, crawling through cactus, ants, rocks and sagebrush for half a mile to finally kill my biggest one, and I could not even walk when I got up. We cooled and cut up the meat and my friends raved over the meat. We divided it up. It is common for lone bucks to come up to people out in the oil patch. The people I tell about our hunt all tell of similar behavior by bucks. If any non-resident wants to try for this hunt, I would be happy to advise. I hunted it once as a non-resident when I lived in Colorado.
